[Trisquel-devel] Installing dependencies for latest emacs and gcc releases

[Luis Guzman]

En 29/05/25 14:27, Heime escribió:
> As it stands, there are simply too many stumbling blocks.  If we want
> people to actually use the tools we're building, we ought to make it
> just a bit easier for them to get started.

The point of using a point release distro is that the software is well 
tested and configured for that point in time, that's also one of the 
reasons is very well stable among the bast repository ecosystem. That's 
~65 thousand packages.

I've mentioned this before, and old package on a point release distro 
like Trisquel, Ubuntu, Debian is not an issue, as long as the package 
can continue to provide the function it was doing when it got in the 
repo, if that package has some security issues it has to be addressed, 
but that doesn't mean it will get updated to the latest, some times, a 
single change can fix the issue without disturbing the package, that's 
the most advised path, when a new distro release comes out, then we can 
have all the new stuff at that point in time.

For the most part Debian has some great tools and platforms to modify, 
(re-)build and compile software, if you take the time to get familiar 
with them then you'll notice is much easier than trying to look for 
documentation on packages that has not being "debianized" at all.

So in sum, the tools in place are already simple to follow, I think you 
may (or may not ) be missing the potential and work already built-in out 
of APT and the Debian building tools, even at the debian folder on any 
package on the repo. Jumping out in the dark, sure it might be 
overwhelming, but once you are familiar with the process, it's not that 
hard.

That said, if you want always the latest and greatest you can use the 
Guix repository, maybe something like Parabola (a rolling release 
distro) other than having to compile from source yourself every single 
time which might get complex on a LTS release.

Regards.

-- 
Luis A. Guzmán G.
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